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The current issue of Oakland Magazine has a great article (by Derk Richardson) about the music department at Mills College. Includes a picture of percussionist William Winant at work.
The impact Mills College has had on experimental music worldwide is enormous. Good to see mainstream local media finally discovering that fact.
The concert series seems to be the best kept secret in the Bay Area. I've never seen a sold-out concert. Check the website .
Here are the next concerts. Some real surprises:
2007–08 Concert Series
The Concert Hall is undergoing renovations in 2007–08. Concerts will be held in Lisser Hall and other campus locations during this time.
Tickets may be purchased the door or online at: http://www.boxofficetickets.com/. All Concert Series and Songlines Series events are free to Mills students, faculty, and staff. The Concert Line: 510.430.2296
The Concert Series is sponsored in part by a gift from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. The Darius Milhaud Concert is made possible in part by a generous endowment from the Mills College Class of 1945. The Mills Performing Group is made possible by a grant from elfenworks LLC, proudly supporting the musical community.
Saturday, September 29, 2007, 8:00 pm
MILLS PERFORMING GROUP
Aaron Copland: Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet
Roscoe Mitchell: White Tiger Disguise for mezzo-soprano
and string quintet
Zeena Parkins: Between the Whiles for solo electric harp
and electronics
Charles Wuorinen: Bearbitungen über das Glogauer Liederbuch for flute, clarinet, violin, contrabass
Graeme Jennings, violin; Cynthia Mei, violin; Charleton Lee, viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; Richard Worn, contrabass; Lynne Morrow, mezzo-soprano; Tod Brody, flute; Robert Schwartz, piano; William Wohlmacher, clarinet; Zeena Parkins, electric harp; Steed Cowart, conductor
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall
Friday, October 12, 2007, 8:00 pm
Darius Milhaud Concert
MILHAUD, STRAVINSKY, AND CARTER
Darius Milhaud: Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 1, Op. 3
Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 2, Op. 40
Igor Stravinsky: Duo Concertant for Violin and Piano
Elliot Carter: Duo for Violin and Piano
Graeme Jennings, violin; Christopher Jones, piano
Free
Lisser Hall
Sunday, October 21, 2007, 4:00 pm
CCM AND CALARTS COMPOSERS
Chris Brown: Stupas (2007) for piano, vibraphone,
and live computer processing
John Bischoff: Edge Transit for cello, bass, piano,
percussion, and electronics
James Fei: New work for the Buchla Box
Maggi Payne: New electroacoustic work
David Rosenboom: Zones of Coherence for trumpet and
interactive electronics
Mark Trayle: New work
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; Richard Worn, contrabass;
W illliam Winant, percussion; Chris Brown: piano;
Daniel Rosenboom, trumpet
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall
Monday, November 5, 2007, 8:00 pm
IMPROVISATION
Roscoe Mitchell, saxophone; Chris Brown, piano; Fred Frith, electric guitar, Zeena Parkins, harp; William Winant, percussion; Pauline Oliveros, accordion; India Cooke, violin
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall
Saturday, November 17, 2007, 8:00 pm
David Tudor Composer-in-Residence
LAETITIA SONAMI
Laetitia Sonami will perform her work in progress "The Appearance of Silence (the Invention of Perspective)," a live interactive electronic work with her unique instrument "the lady's glove,"and works made collaboratively with Mills students.
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall
Saturday, January 26, 2008, 8:00 pm
Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence
HELMUT LACHENMANN
Intérieur I for solo percussion
Gran Torso for string quartet
Allegro Sostenuto for clarinet, cello, and piano
Toccatina for solo violin
William Winant, percussion; Graeme Jennings, violin; Erik Ulman, violin; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; Matt Ingalls, clarinet; Geoffrey Gartner, cello; Christopher Jones, piano
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall
Thursday, March 6, 8:00 pm
Friday, March 7, 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 8, 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 9, 4:00 pm
additional events/times/locations tba
SIGNAL FLOW FROM MILLS 2008: A Festival of New Works by Mills Graduate Student Composers
Free
various locations
Thursday, March 20, 8:00 pm
CONNECTIONS
A Recital by: Thomas Buckner, Baritone
Joseph Kubera, Pianist, Electronics
The program includes plainsong, early liturgical chant,
songs of the troubadors and trouviers, Minnelieder,
Songs of Ockeghem, Jacobus Clemens, Isaak,Senfl, works of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Webern, Brecht, Charles Ives, John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Robert Ashley.
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Lisser Hall
